At 10:03 AM 1/4/00 -0500, you wrote: >At 08:03 AM 1/4/00 -0500, you wrote: >> After being asked by a couple of Board members, last night in IRC, I'm >>delaying the vote on Motion 99-34 to see if anyone has further discussion >>on the Motion. > >Having dug this one out, I would liek to suggest that any Motion for >discussion be announced with an email with it number in the header. This >one was buried under the subjectline: Sweeping Out the Corners >and I quote: > Motion 99-34 - announced as open for discussion on 12/16: 'Now that Joy's > motion "to open subscription to BOARD-L on a read-only basis" has received > a second from Shari - the Motion numbered 99-34 is now open for discussion.' I have this in my in box - 12/16 - Subject: Motion 99-34 Motion to open subscription to BOARD-L on a read-only basis >I would like to hear something about the technical pros and/or cons of >this. Am I correct in my understanding of the mail list software that board >members only would be on the Accept List and that this function is >realtively easy to maintain? If this is technically not a difficulty, I am >all for it as it would also enable subscribers to reply dircetoly to a >board member's email, thus facilitating hearing from our constituency. The Board members would be added to the accept list - meaning that only they could post. CCs would not be able to post to Board-L but could be subscribed to the list to receive all posts to the list directly without receiving a daily recap with a twist from elsewhere. Board members who felt that they had to send list mail immediately to other lists would lose some of their punch as interested CCs could get the information directly sans other list(s). I would receive bounce messages including those who have trouble subbing, those who can't remember how to unsub, those who forget to notify a change of address and those that have ISP or account problems. Tim